Four Questions about Protein Diets

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Abstract
Recent reports from the Food and Drug Administration and Center for Disease Control have alerted the medical community to sudden death occurring in patients treated for obesity with low calorie liquid protein diets.1 A detailed report of one of these deaths appears elsewhere in this issue of the Journal. Thus far at least 15 cases have been reported of sudden death in women, without a previous history of cardiac or other underlying disease, who had adhered to a liquid protein, hypocaloric diet.1 The women were 23 to 51 years of age (mean of 38), had followed the diet for . . .